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Irrational things you have been dumped for (lighthearted)

34 replies

SummerPeonies · 15/07/2020 15:14

3 months relationship ended because I refused to pay for my half of an outing (it was his idea to go out not mine)
I usually paid for myself when we planned dates before...

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Weetabixandcrumpets · 15/07/2020 17:28

Wanting a pudding, when I had 'clearly had enough lunch' !

I gained a pudding and lost a man. It was a fantastic swap. Grin

Hiccupiscal · 15/07/2020 17:36

"She left a cup on the sideboard"

Honest to god reason when an friend asked the ex why we split GrinHmm

everythingbackbutyou · 15/07/2020 18:05

Not me, but when we were teenagers my sister got dumped by her boyfriend because he had sooooo much going on, including having to vote.

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TwentyViginti · 15/07/2020 18:36

@Weetabixandcrumpets

Wanting a pudding, when I had 'clearly had enough lunch' !

I gained a pudding and lost a man. It was a fantastic swap. Grin

I hear ya! Grin
HaudMaDug · 15/07/2020 18:48

@Hiccupiscal
Not joking, I've dumped a bloke for that. No coaster down and left a cup ring. I was bleezin'Angry. He was a dickhead though and always threatening to rearrange the tins in my cupboard

gotothecooler · 15/07/2020 18:57

I got dumped for having sex. With him.

Go figure. We were 3 months into a relationship when a drunken night out led us to shag on the local golf course.

Next day he called as planned and told me we couldn't see each other anymore because he didn't think I was 'like that'

We had been having sex, very good sex, from day one Confused

Babynumber2dueNov · 15/07/2020 20:39

Got dumped from my first serious relationship for feeling poorly and not wanting to go to Pizza Hut 😂 we were only 18 and there was no nastiness, the relationship had run it’s course so when I said I didn’t want to go, he just left, said bye and that was it- 2 years over! 😂 turns out I actually had chickenpox so spent my first heartbreak at home quarantined for 2 weeks! My mum did buy me a killer pair of heels to help ease my broken heart though!

RoseOfSharyn · 15/07/2020 21:01

Because I bought my sister tickets to see Marilyn Manson for a Christmas present. Apparently people have 'rape orgies' at MM gigs and if I was 'willing to be in that situation I can't be with you'.

He threatened to split up with me if I went to see my favourite band alone after I asked him to come and he refused. I bought one ticket anyway and luckily he had already dumped me by the time that gig came up.

DiscoInFurlough · 15/07/2020 21:11

For dropping out of college as he wanted someone who would have a career.
Broke my heart at a the time but probably motivated me in life... a quick google search reveals i "won" that one (long game Grin)

Oh and my other favourite... "looking like i was in love with him" - night before, he had uttered the 'i love you' whilst drunk. I had responded with a rather awkward "...thanks but im not quite ready to say it back". But apparently i was giving him loving looks (whilst half asleep) the next day and it was too much Hmm. O.....K.

mindutopia · 15/07/2020 21:16

I got dumped by my high school boyfriend because I told him I didn't believe in a literal interpretation of the bible (wtf? I'm not Christian, but he was raised in a very conservative religious family) and because I believed in using childcare (he believed women should stay at home and care for the children and that childcare was the devil's work). Hmm

Funny enough (or actually it's quite sad really), he is now an evangelical pastor in a really wacky church, married to a woman who stays at home with their 4 kids, but word on the street is that he is secretly gay and self-hating with a lot of internalised homophobia.

HollowTalk · 15/07/2020 21:21

@amberturrrd

I once did a poo in Johnny Depp's bed Blush
Hang on, how come nobody's picked up on this one!
DiscoInFurlough · 15/07/2020 21:26

@hollowtalk i'm not sure many people would find it funny to joke about a fairly serious on-going domestic violence case?
Poor taste if you ask me!

coulddowithashag · 15/07/2020 21:34

I once got dumped for having diabetes. Had to give myself insulin injections and he couldn't cope with it!

coulddowithashag · 15/07/2020 21:34

I once got dumped for having diabetes. Had to give myself insulin injections and he couldn't cope with it!

AnnaBegins · 15/07/2020 21:38

Because he had to study for A levels. Seems fair enough until you learn that actually meant hanging out in his mate's shed smoking weed! Reader, I married him Grin (much later on when we'd all grown up a bit).

suggestionsplease1 · 15/07/2020 21:49

Because they didn't know what to get me for a birthday present and that was a sign we were not compatible.

PicklePig31 · 15/07/2020 21:56

My laugh annoyed him...

Previous and post him, everyone I’ve been with has loved my laugh.

Go figure Hmm

HollowTalk · 15/07/2020 22:00

[quote DiscoInFurlough]@hollowtalk i'm not sure many people would find it funny to joke about a fairly serious on-going domestic violence case?
Poor taste if you ask me![/quote]
I knew there was a case on, but hadn't realised that's what she was referring to. I've tried to avoid the details of that case for obvious reasons.

IncrediblySadToo · 15/07/2020 22:06

[quote DiscoInFurlough]@hollowtalk i'm not sure many people would find it funny to joke about a fairly serious on-going domestic violence case?
Poor taste if you ask me![/quote]
^

Just chose to ignore it rather than create a scene with some keyboard muppet.

Harveypuss · 15/07/2020 23:54

My 19 year old daughter's boyfriend dumped her because they never argued. Apparently he felt that was weird. As a family we're very quiet and rarely have crossed words and if we do, we talk it through. He came from a family of high emotion and conflict. He couldn't get his head round it. He dumped her, saying the fact they didn't argue wasn't normal as "without conflict there is no passion". I've never heard such a pile of bollocks. She was devastated at the time but is now with a much more mature boyfriend!

Newernewist · 16/07/2020 00:04

When I was a teenager, because he fancied gina g just a little bit too much 😂
I cried for days 😂

SoulofanAggron · 16/07/2020 00:52

Well, the grimmest one was when I was seventeen, for happening to be bisexual, because he 'couldn't have me around his kids.' Angry

Other than that, I think I was partly dumped once for being 'too hairy.'

Osirus · 16/07/2020 00:55

@AnnaBegins

Because he had to study for A levels. Seems fair enough until you learn that actually meant hanging out in his mate's shed smoking weed! Reader, I married him Grin (much later on when we'd all grown up a bit).
Same, but it his LPC rather than A levels. He still spent a huge amount of time smoking weed.

I married him too!

HouchinBawbags · 16/07/2020 01:04

I took a pro plus tablet on a night out. If anyone recalls, they were what came before Rockstar, Monster and Red Bull Grin

I was running on about 4hrs sleep and was knackered but didn't want to be rude to his friends and get him to take me home early (I was in his hometown, staying at his overnight, far too far to leave myself). I took the tablet out of my bag and washed it down with a drink. He dumped me the day after. He'd thought I was popping pills and wouldn't believe it was a bloody caffeine tablet. I even had the packet right there in my bag. I wouldn't even know how to get an illegal drug if I tried!

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